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I was reading a book on the Hundred Years' War and discovered that Flanders came close to union with the English crown; this was stopped by the desperate move of the French monarch to have it dynastically unified with the Duchy of Burgundy instead, as he dreaded the creation of a northern Guyenne. What if it had gone the other way? I don't think that it'll have much effect on the -final- outcome of the hundred years' war - the population and wealth disparity is simply too great, though the wealth of the Low Countries is nothing to sneeze at - but it has interesting implications for the politics of the HRE, at least, since even if there still is a Habsburg inheritance of Burgundy you don't have the mess that they got into with the United Provinces.

So does Spain use the saved treasure from the wars in the Netherlands to push the Reconquista south to Timbuktu and East to Carthage? Does France demand the County as part of any final peace agreement and become a force in the HRE (King Louis, Elector of Flanders, haha)?


edit: that'd be -united-, not untied :p
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